Like Nathaniel Kahn, Tomas Koolhaas has made a film about his father, the celebrated architect, but this is no intimate family portrait – Rem himself gets only a supporting role. Instead, Tomas turns his lens on the buildings themselves and the lives taking place in and around them

The London that rose up in the 1960s and 70s proved inherently cinematic, luring film-makers such as Kubrick and Truffaut to its new offices and housing estates. But their dystopian visions were to create an indelible link in the public imagination between modernism and failure

Angel Borrego Cubero’s wonderfully gossipy film, The Competition, follows five of the world’s most famous architects in apparently hot pursuit of the chance to build the national museum of Andorra. It's a revealing glimpse of life at a big-name practice, from the late-night pizzas to the experience of being shouted at by a Pritzker Prize winner.

In our Film issue, we watch The Competition, a gripping documentary about Nouvel, Gehry, Hadid, Perrault and Foster bidding to build a new national museum of art in Andorra. We also talk to Tomas Koolhaas who's making REM, a film about his father's work. And Owen Hatherley examines how London's architecture has been portrayed by auteurs from abroad, from François Truffaut to Alfonso Cuarón.